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...winners (see color page), unanimously chosen by a three-man jury:* first prize ($1,500), Manhattan Abstractionist John Ferren, 52, for his The Birches; second ($750), Social Realist Semyon Shimin, 55, for his Discussion Groups-Rome, sketched in Rome during the 1956 elections but finished in Manhattan; and third ($250), Milton Goldring, 40, also a New Yorker, for his Shadow and Substance. The predominant tone of the festival is abstract expressionist, and imitative of the leaders of that movement...
...lover of Shakespeare and Greek drama, Düurrenmatt regards himself as a cynical realist, but adds: "I am not one of those who have lost all hope. Cynicism does not mean bitterness. If a situation is described in a cruel manner, it does not necessarily mean the author is bitter...
...showing 50 oils, sculptures and drawings in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's Rockefeller Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring...
...Balthus (real name: Balthasar Klossowsky), who comes from a wealthy, art-minded Polish aristocratic family. He started painting at 16, insists "an artist should remain anonymous," keeps within the realist tradition. He snaps back at those who attack his studies of young girls as Freudian and sinister with: "Maybe it is the people who look at them, and not my paintings, that are sinister, erotic and morbid...
...Objective Painter Adolph Gottlieb, Art Students League Director Stewart Klonis, Arts Publisher Jonathan Marshall, Old-Line Abstractionist George L. K. Morris, Realist Painter Ogden M. Pleissner and Sculptor William Zorach...